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'X-Men: Apocalypse' Casts Lana Condor as Jubilee

The upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse will serve as the conclusion to the X-Men film trilogy that began in 2011 with X-Men: First Class and continued last year with X-Men: Days of Future Past. James McAvoy (young Professor X), Michael Fassbender (young Magneto), and Jennifer Lawrence (young Mystique) - the three leads in the First Class series - are all expected to step away from the X-Men franchise after Apocalypse, too.

It's a good thing, then, that Apocalypse will introduce not just younger versions of mutants featured in past X-Men movies, but also those that haven't been featured yet - not in any significant capacity, that is. One such mutant, as we learned today, will be Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee: a character who has made blink-and-you'll-miss-her cameos in previous live-action X-Men films (and who almost showed up in Days of Future Past's post-apocalyptic future setting).

Jubilee, who possesses a super-human ability to create pyrotechnic energy plasmoids with her hands, first appeared in the Uncanny X-Men comics in 1989. She was the youngest member of the X-Men during the early 1990s comics, around the same time that she was featured as one of the main characters on the '90s X-Men animated TV show. The character, as mentioned before, has been brought to life in live-action form before (by Katrina Florence and Kea Wong), but in Apocalypse it will be newcomer Lana Condor's turn to play the role - and fingers crossed, she'll actually get more than a minute or two of screen time.

Bryan Singer, who is directing Apocalypse (his fourth X-Men movie to date), confirmed the Jubilee news, as you can see below:

These Apocalypse cast members won't be the sole new additions to the X-Men film universe debuting next year. The role of Colossus is being recast for the upcoming Deadpool movie (releasing a few months before Apocalypse), while Channing Tatum is locked in place to portray Gambit in the upcoming solo character film (arriving a few months afterApocalypse). Indeed, by the time 2016 draws to a close, the X-Men cinematic universe will have introduced several new mutants who could feasibly carry the torch forward, in whatever X-Men movies 20th Century Fox decides to green-light in the future. (Don't forget, that X-Force script is just sitting around, gathering dust...)

Fantastic Four opens August 7th, 2015, Deadpool on February 12th, 2016, X-Men: Apocalypse on May 27th, 2016, Gambit on October 7th, 2016, Wolverine 3 (not the official title) on March 3rd, 2017, Fantastic Four 2 on June 9th, 2017, and some as-yet unspecified X-Men film on July 13th, 2018.